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Looks great, but I just don't trust small companies -- especially those set up by teenagers -- with that level of data. I know too well how too many people beha
by bonaldi 15y ago
Looks great, but I just don't trust small companies -- especially those set up by teenagers -- with that level of data. I know too well how too many people behave when they got access to the mail spools back in the day, this is that on a much grander scale.
There's something reassuring about being one user drop in an ocean of millions, as I am in GMail.
- rwalker 15y agoWe care deeply about user privacy and have systems in place to prevent anyone (including the founders) from looking at user data. You can find our privacy policy here: https://www.greplin.com/privacy https://www.greplin.com/privacy
- dangero 15y agoI agree with the sentiment Bonaldi's post in spite of your reply. I read the security page, and while I understand that there are "safeguards" in place to say that the founders can't read my email, I find that kind of like me saying that I can't browse porn because I installed a porn web browser filter on my PC. I have all the passwords, so I can choose to turn that off at any time. If I sign up for your service, your servers contain plain text copies of all of my data. If it's not in plain text, then it's encrypted with a key that you hold so you can decrypt it for indexing. I think there is a market for technology like this, but I think it would be more turnkey solutions for businesses so that they can own and monitor access to their servers and data. Is this a direction you are considering?
- rwalker 15y agoI completely understand what you're saying. In your metaphor, our system is more like this: all "porn" I access is logged (and this log is sent to my wife) and only she and I together can unlock the filter. More succinctly: no single person here has all the passwords. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamirs_Secret_Sharing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamirs_Secret_Sharing
- rafaelc 15y agoIf it helps any, he's no longer a teenager
- stevenp 15y agoI'm not a fan of people pulling the "age" card. There are plenty of old men that have done tons of damage throughout history. It's fine to be mistrustful of small companies (I had that trouble with Mint initially) but there's no need to jab them about age. I wish I'd done something this kick-ass before I was 20.
- bonaldi 15y agoSure, it's as fallible as any blanket generalisation. But there are extra risks you take when young men are involved, and a lot of those risks are statistically quantifiable. There's a reason they pay more (a lot more) for car insurance, and it's not because risk assessors are playing the age card. It's because young men are more risky. (Of course, this also means they're much more likely to take the big risks required for entrepreneurship -- a tendency to risk-taking is not an unqualified bad. I think it's an essential quality. I just don't want to fly in planes flown by 19-year-olds, and I don't want them in my mail spool.)